El Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:50:32 -0800 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> escribió: > Since we didn't get to the Board member tasks at yesterday's meeting, > jsmith suggested that the Board members send the goals they've > selected (if they've done so already) to the mailing list to start > discussion. > > I've talked to rbergeron and decided to take the task of fixing the > Feature Process. We've known for a long time that the Feature > Process provides a useful service but at the expense of aggravating > the people implementing features [sometimes unnecessarily], annoying > the people deciding what's a feature [often unnecessarily], and > without always achieving the collaboration needed to make release > happen without slippage and/or last minute fixing of feature-driven > brokenness [seems like at least every other release]. > > These and other problems were collected by rbergeron and other > impacted Fedora contributors on: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fixing_features > > I'll be working on taking those identified problems and turning out a > new Feature Policy that FESCo can approve which addresses those > issues. > > -Toshio I think that we need to have a cutoff date that is around 6 weeks before feature freeze where any feature that is very disruptive has to land before. that includes things requiring mass rebuilds or that significantly change something. we can then schedule a mass rebuild 5 weeks before feature freeze and allow plenty of time to clean up from breakages/failures. we should probably look at removing no longer maintained packages at this point also. Dennis _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
